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July 13th, 2015

Not really that exhausting a new season ‘week’ honestly.

Obligatory disclaimer as always. Shows certainly do get better or worse than what their first episode(s) indicated, which is probably a good thing for this season as it was rife with pretty dull opening episodes that supposedly promise that later ones will be totally different. At least judging from what the rest of the peanut gallery around the internet is saying at any rate, reminding me why I’m a hermit.

Anything I’m going to cover for another week will have carbonara by the link to my original post on it, or if I don’t have an original post, to videos of puppies in slow motion or something. That doesn’t mean I’ll stick with it, or won’t eventually pick up something without one, just that I’m planning to cover at least one more episode. Thursdays and Saturdays are messy looking at the moment, so I’m playing it a little conservatively. Anyway, onward and forward.

The only things left to air are sequels to shows I hated (Cinderella Girls (17th) and Prisma Ilya (24th)), so… noooo… Not sure what the deal with Italian Lupin is at this point. Honestly, stopped paying attention and I cherish my ignorance.

Sunday

A few decent things with the direction, but mostly moving very slowly and a dullard for the protagonist.

Wrapup of the Wrapup:

Meh. Well, still betterish than last season… I guess. At least Symphogear and probably one of the other action shows will keep that end up after the three month drought. I almost certainly won’t be covering three shows on Thursdays, so it’ll probably come down to which one has the most obnoxious next episode, and I already know what Chaos Dragon’s is. Then again, School-Live’s is in the coveted before-work timeslot. Similar goes for Saturday, although it is a weekend and they are all hours apart, so I might be more lenient. If Charlotte and Working have another dull or angst-dump out of nowhere though, they’re probably right out. I can at least rely on the clown in Hajime’s boobs and the show’s (and clown’s) horrifying views on the internet and society in general to… well, be horrifying. But fascinatingly so. Like an evil clown embedded in someone’s chest.

Monday through Wednesday are looking pretty bad though. If Gangster can pick up its pace by about threefold and stop mincing around with talking about how totally adult and deep and dark it is while having super humans do cartwheels through the air and leaving body counts behing them that would make Pinochet blush, maybe I’ll go with that, but since it’s been all talk and (budget-less) execution has been at odds with what it’s saying, I have little hope. Perhaps I’ll do some more game reviews since it’s been a while, although those take a lot longer than the 35 or so minutes I usually take to post about an episode. I guess we’ll see. Avaunt!

11 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

I’m only following Braves and Gatchaboobs out of the ones that you are continuing with, and I’m not certain that I’ll stick with G-boobs much longer if it doesn’t actually start to do something/anything.

My predictions are that Lotta-Charlie and Dead-School will bury you with Everest-sized mountains of angst.

I can only laugh and do the final sign-of-the-cross on you for trying to stick with God Awful.

Well anyway, that Justice League: Gods and Monsters thing leaked early. Its basically a alternate universe with the son of Zod as Superman and the Man-Bat as Batman. I guess its supposed to be more morally gray where the League isn’t all super against killing or something like that. Its by Bruce Timm and those DCAU guys. Wanna give it a look since its another anime deadzone?

Y’know, if you drop any of your picks this season, either due to boredom, disappointment, annoyance, or all three, you can always review western shows again. I’ve seen that Steven Universe and Star vs.tFoE are better than most anime to come out this year.